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Gris's colors were on the flat side-a patchwork of plush green, stained walnut, grey felt and golden oak-but his forms were as many-faceted as a fly's eye. Until his death (at 40) in 1927, he was a master practitioner of cubism as well as its best spokesman...
...dares"). He urges all parties to unite with him for restoration of the Byzantine Empire, "of course without quarreling with the Turks, who are good, sweet fellows." Fiery, mustached Emperor Michael is vague about most of his program, but specific on one point: if elected, he wants a carved walnut throne. When he heard that part of the job of the U.N.'s Balkan Committee was to help Greeks, Michael got right in with his own request: ten cars, two typewriters, two radios, loudspeakers and money. In the meantime, he has been stopping Salonika traffic, campaigning from a table...
Fantastic Error. In his house on Walnut Street, Dr. Benjamin Rush plowed prayerfully through his medical library hoping to find a way to beat the yellow fever. He was a good and pious, if somewhat crotchety and hypersensitive man, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and generally considered the most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting...
Bernard Karfiol, a nut-brown little walnut of a man, is one of the country's most reserved and most respected artists. In almost half a century of painting he has had less than a dozen one-man shows, but they have earned him a place in a dozen topnotch museums. His latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, showed why Karfiol is famous in spite of himself...
...walnut-paneled room in Washington, the Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury...